When we inspected the property in St. Radegund, we were stunned: that someone could actually leave this house safely under these circumstances? A very old minimum pensioner with a walker could be evacuated. She needs help.
“It’s all a nightmare for my mother, she can’t believe it, she is seriously traumatized,” says Manfred L. It was he and his sister who immediately followed the very elderly Styrian woman’s call for help – and they succeeded. getting people who lived alone out of the house under lightning and thunder, while water poured in all around them. Literal. The Kalkbach, about 50 meters away, swelled into a raging mass of water, and the flash flood swept away everything around the house. “The water also dented the garage door! It got into the basement, completely flooding it and destroying everything in there.”
Senior woman walks with a walker
The mother, who is still recovering from a broken femur suffered in a fall and can only move with difficulty on a walker, is completely exhausted. Manfred L.: “No one dares to tell her that the house may no longer be habitable in the future. It is her home, she has lived there since she was twenty, how can she deal with that? .?”
The house had been hit three times by heavy rain the year before, and the family also suffered a similar storm in 1978, “but the impact was still not that extreme.” The son also wants answers: namely whether the stream, which was repeatedly overgrown, was properly “maintained”.
But first we have to help the older woman. If you want to support them: “The Crown helps – Styria”, account no. AT152081500044569523, password Storm 2024/Senior. Your donation is tax deductible!
Source: Krone
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